Walter Benjamin: Art, Aura and Authenticity | Ceasefire Magazine
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Walter Benjamin: Art, Aura and Authenticity | Ceasefire Magazine
John Berger / Ways of Seeing , Episode 1 (1972)
youtube.comWe have entered a hyperreal era where simulacra come before, and therefore define, that which we call real. To put it in the language of authenticity: the media that is essential to constructive authenticity has now come to influence the character and selection of subjects that might be chosen for authenticity peddling in the first place.
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